On 16 February, the sixth Science Day took place at BIOFACH. Science Day is a joint event of TP Organics and TIPI, the Technology Innovation Platform of IFOAM – Organics International. The morning session was dedicated to EU Research and Innovation Policy and organised in cooperation with ERA-Net CORE Organic. Philippe Vinçon, General Director for Education and Research at the French Ministry of Agriculture and Food, called for a large research and innovation mission for the transformation of food and farming based on agroecological principles. Hanns-Christoph Eiden, President of the German Federal Office for Agriculture and Food, spoke about the target of the new German government to achieve 20% organic farmland by 2030, and the role of research and knowledge exchange in this. Participants also discussed the need for mild, and small-scale, food processing techniques for use by SMEs and on-farm; and explored how to improve communication towards consumers and the role of digitisation in this.

In the afternoon session TIPI elaborated on research gaps in organic food and farming systems in the Global South and its list of 100 questions to be addressed by novel organic food and farming systems. The aim was to inspire the development of strategic regional research agendas, which, in turn, will influence regional action plans.

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